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Book reviews in Labour History Review volume 90 (2025), Issue 2

The books listed below are reviewed in Labour History Review (2025), 90, (2). Read the reviews. In this issue of Labour History Review… Steve Poole reviews Matthew Roberts (ed.), Memory and Modern British Politics: Commemoration, Tradition, Legacy, London: Bloomsbury, 2024, pp. 296, h/b, £76.50, ISBN 948 13501 90467 Edward Royle reviews Rebecca Gill and Janette Martin (eds), An Ordinary Life: Florence Lockwood’s Memoir of Life, Suffrage and War in the … Continue reading Book reviews in Labour History Review volume 90 (2025), Issue 2

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Classics of labour history: volume one of the Dictionary of Labour Biography

Fifteen volumes of the Dictionary of Labour Biography have now appeared in print, and there is as yet no sign that the series is anywhere near complete. When the labour historian Royden Harrison (1927-2002) reviewed volume one for the SSLH Bulletin back in 1972 (below), his main complaint was that the price of £10 was clearly ‘preposterous’. For generations of students, however, the ever-growing resource … Continue reading Classics of labour history: volume one of the Dictionary of Labour Biography

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Classics of labour history: Margaret Cole on Fabian socialism

Margaret Cole never held office in the Society for the Study of Labour History, yet without her influence it may never have come into existence. Born Margaret Postgate in 1893, she came to politics during the first world war, when she campaigned on behalf of her brother, the imprisoned socialist conscientious objector Raymond Postgate, and through him met the political theorist and historian G.D.H. ‘Douglas’ … Continue reading Classics of labour history: Margaret Cole on Fabian socialism

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Classics of labour history: The Making of the English Working Class

It is almost impossible today to think about labour history without some reference to E.P. Thompson’s classic work The Making of the English Working Class. Read by millions in the fifty years since its publication, and loved by many, it is by any measure a core text of social and economic history, and its importance was recognised from the start. The review republished here, written … Continue reading Classics of labour history: The Making of the English Working Class

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